PANEL TO SCREEN STYLE AMER FILM COMIC BOOKS BLOCKBUSTER ERA
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPP
SEP162248
(W) Drew Morton
Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Comic book adaptations as
Sin City,
300, and
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted components of their source materials' visual style. The screen has been fractured into panels, the photographic has given way to the graphic, and the steady rhythm of cinematic time has evolved into a far more malleable element. In other words, films have begun to look like comics. Yet, this interplay also occurs in the other direction. In order to retain cultural relevancy, comic books have begun to look like films. Film and comic books continuously lean on one another to reimagine their formal attributes and stylistic possibilities.
In Shops: Nov 30, 2016
SRP: $65.00